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f | %\)t American's CreetJ 

fl 3 am an 3merican, attacheD to tlje 
m\ principles of tfte Constitution of tjje 
f 1 Qniteo States, establishing a free 
|g| anD in Depen Dent nation toitft a goo- 

■ ernment of the people, bg tjie people, 

■ for tfje people, tufjose just potoers are 

■ DeriPeD from tfje consent of the goo* 
t erneD; a Democracg in a republic; 
V a soPeretgn nation of a sovereign 

1 people; a perfect union of mang 
1 states; one anD inseparable, founD* 
1 eD upon t&e eternal principles of 
t a libertg, equalitg, justice anD Ini* 
w manitg. 

| 3 am therefore a loper of mg coun* 

f. teg, anD 3 DeOtcate mgself to its 
; I serPice; to support its Constitution; 
Jr to obeg its latos; to respect its flag, 
Jy anD to DefenD it against all enemies. 
Vi <£>oD §>aDe t|je OniteD States. 


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PREPARED AND ARRANGED BY 

WM. W. MORROW 
Judge of the United States 
Circuit Court of Appeals 




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C!)e Sources of tf)e jfourteen 
joints of tf)e American’s CreeD 

I “3 am an American”. 

!. “AMERICAN”: “A native or legally constituted citizen of the 
United States.”-Standard Dictionary. 

2. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject 
to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of 

the State wherein they reside.”-Fourteenth Amendment to the 

Constitution of the United States. 

3. ‘CITIZENS BY BIRTH OR CHOICE OF A COMMON COUN¬ 
TRY, THAT COUNTRY HAS A RIGHT TO CONCENTRATE YOUR 
AFFECTIONS. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you 
in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriot¬ 
ism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”— 
From Washington’s Farewell Address, September 1 7, 1 796 (Richard¬ 
son’s “Messages and Papers of the Presidents,” Vol. I, page 215). 

4. “When honored and decrepit age shall lean against the base of this 

monument, and troops of ingenuous youth shall be gathered round it, 
and when the one shall speak to the other of its objects, the purposes 
of its construction, and the great and glorious events with which it 
is connected, there shall rise from every youthful breast, the ejacula¬ 
tion, ‘Thank God, I-1 also-AM AN AMERICAN!’ ”-From Daniel 

Webster’s address on the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, 

June 17, 1843. 

ii. “UttarijeD to tfje principles of tpe Constitution 
of tfce (Unite0 States”. 

1 . At the opening of the second session of the Third Congress on 
November 18, 1794, President Washington in his address to Congress 
spoke of the 

“NEED OF AFFECTIONATE VIGILANCE OVER THE 
PRECIOUS DEPOSITARY OF AMERICAN HAPPINESS, 

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES” (Ann. 
of Congress, 3d. Congress, page 790). 

2. In that session of Congress, a bill was introduced for the naturali¬ 
zation of aliens. After various amendments had been proposed relat¬ 
ing to the attachment to the government of the United States, which 
the applicant was required to prove to the satisfaction of the court 
to entitle him to be admitted as a citizen of the United States, the 
subject was referred to a committee of which James Madison was 
chairman, who reported a new bill. The bill was debated and passed 
January 29, 1 795 (Ann. of Congress, 3d. Congress, 1 793 to 1 795, 




pages 1064-1066; I Stat. 414). The third subdivision of Section 1 
of the Act provides as follows: 

“Thirdly. The Court admitting such alien shall be satisfied 
that he has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction 
of the United States five years; and it shall further appear to 
their satisfaction, that during that time, he has behaved as a 
man of good moral character, ATTACHED TO THE PRIN¬ 
CIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED 
STATES, AND WELL DISPOSED TO THE GOOD ORDER 
AND HAPPINESS OF THE SAME.” 

The last clause of the provision has not been changed since, but 
has been preserved as the test of loyalty through all the amendments 
and revisions of the naturalization laws down to the present time, and 
is now found in identical language in the first clause of the fourth 
paragraph of Section 4 of the Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat., part 1, 
pages 396, 598). 

It is estimated that 35,000,000 aliens have been admitted to citi¬ 
zenship under this statute. 

The presumption is that citizens by birth are equally ATTACHED 
TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND WELL 
DISPOSED TO THE GOOD ORDER AND HAPPINESS OF THE 
SAME. 

hi. “dBsta&Hsjnng a free and independent nation”. 

1. The Declaration of Independence declared “That the United Col 
onies are and of right ought to be FREE AND INDEPENDENT 
STATES.” 

2. The Constitution of the United States organized the people of the 
United States into “A FREE AND INDEPENDENT NATION.” 

Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dali. 4 1 9, 463, 464, 465, 470, 47 1 (1 793) ; 
McCullough v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 315, 405 (1819); Cohens v. 
Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 413 (1821); Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 

Wheat. 1, 185 (1824); Osborn v. United States Bank, 9 Wheat. 
738, 858 (1824); Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U. S. 
698, 711 (1893); In re Debs, 158 U. S. 564, 582 (1894). 

3. “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, en¬ 
tangling alliances with none.”-Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural 

Address, delivered March 4, 1801 (Richardson’s “Messages and 

Papers of the Presidents,” Vol. I, page 323). 

4. The Monroe Doctrine. 

First: “The American continents by the FREE AND INDEPEND¬ 
ENT CONDITION which they have assumed and maintained are 
henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization 
by any European powers.” 

Second: “We should consider any attempts on their part to extend 
their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our 
peace and safety.” 

-From the message of President Monroe dated December 2, 1823 

(“Messages and Papers of the Presidents,” Vol. II, pages 209, 
281). 

IV. “ZSlitb ‘a government of tfte people, tfte peo= 
pie, for tlje people’ ”, 

From Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863. 




V. “GHbose ‘just potoers ate beribeb from tbe com 
sent of tfje gobernetr”. 

From the Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson). 


vi. “3 Oemocracg in a republic”, 

“A Republican government is a government by representatives 

chosen by the people.”-Cooley’s Principles of Constitutional Law, 

page 213. 


VII. “3 soperetgn nation of a soperetgn people”. 

I . WE THE PEOPLE of the United States * * * do ordain and 

establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”-From 

the preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 

“Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country 
* * * In Europe the sovereignty is generally ascribed to the prince; 
here it rests with the people”. Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dallas 471. 

2. THIS CONSTITUTION, and the Laws of the United States which 
shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which 
shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, SHALL BE 
THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND; and the Judges in every State 
shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of 

any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”-Article VI, Clause 2, 

of the Constitution. 


viil. “3 perfect union of tnanp states”. 

From the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 

“WE THE PEOPLE of the United States in order to form a more 
perfect Union * * * do ordain and establish this Constitution 

for the United States of America.” 


ix. “2Dne anO inseparable”. 

1. Webster’s reply to Hayne in the Senate, January 26, 1830. 

2. “The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible 
union composed of indestructible states”. Texas v. White, 7 Wall. 

700-725. 




X. “jFounOeO upon tlje eternal principles of libertn, 

equality, justice ana ijumanitp.” 

1. “WE THE PEOPLE of the United States in order * * * to 

establish Justice * * * and secure the Blessings of Liberty to 

ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution 
for the United States of America.” -From the Preamble to the Con¬ 

stitution of the United States. 

2. Neither the United States nor any State “shall deprive any person 
OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY without due process of law.”— 
From the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of 
the United States. 

3. “No state shall * * * deny to any person * * * the 

EQUAL protection of the laws.”-From the Fourteenth Amendment 

to the Constitution of the United States. 

4. “There is but one law for all, namely, the law which governs all 
law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equality — 

the law of nature and of nations.”-Edmund Burke’s speech on the 

impeachment of Warren Hastings (Burke’s Works, Vol. II, page 525). 

XI. “3 am therefore a louer of mp countrp”. 

“If we lose that love of country which transcends all else and 
makes us willing to die to preserve our country, then shall we lose 
the capacity and the desire to aid in protecting the liberties of others.” 

-Address of Charles E. Hughes at the Union League Club, New 

York, March 26, 1919. 


XII. “8nD 3 OeOteate mpself to tt 0 serofee”. 

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863. 

xiii. “Co 0 upport it 0 Constitution; to obep its 

lato 0 ; to rc0pect tt 0 flag, anti to DefenO it 
again 0 t all enemic 0 .” 

Oath of Allegiance (34 Stat., part 1, pp. 596, 597, 598). 

xiv. “<S5oD ^a«e tlje Ottited §>tatc 0 .” 

From the proclamation of the Crier made when the Chief Justice 
and the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States take their 
places on the bench at each daily session of the Court. 






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